A progressive voice from the Carolinas, featuring views, news, and dialogue that the corporate media doesn't. In the Mountains of Western North Carolina, Mills River is a rural community about 20 minutes from Asheville.

Friday, March 28, 2014

"Kansas is a study of a state hurtling toward total failure..."

Why? Austerity. Here's even more concrete evidence which guts the theory that cutting taxes (especially for corporations) increases prosperity. It doesn't. But the cons keep clinging to their beloved trickle-down fantasies, in spite of its abject failures, well, everywhere.

“In the councils of government we must guard against
the acquisition of power, whether sought or unsought,
by the military industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties and democratic processes.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower
from his final address to the nation
January 17, 1961

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
--Thomas Jefferson